Petition of the day

Issue: Whether the Hobbs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 2342(1), prohibits a defendant from raising the invalidity of an Federal Communications Commission regulation when that regulation forms the basis of a class action brought by a private party seeking crippling monetary damages.

Aug. 2015

In a conversation with Bill Kristol of The Weekly Standard, Justice Samuel Alito reflects upon (among other things) his arrival on the Court, recent First Amendment cases, the themes in his dissent in Obergefell v. Hodges, and his love for baseball.